On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 19:08 -0700, Edoceo Lists wrote: > List, > Is at /dev/sda1. Does anyone know if I need this? Where will I put /boot? > At /dev/sda2? Will GRUB work OK? I'm way > nervous about blasting this thing away and replacing Dell's 65M partition > with my /boot and stuffs. Help.
I have a dell laptop with Dell diagnostics in /dev/hda1, windows xp in /dev/hda2 and linux in /dev/hda3..on. There's no problem with making grub boot from /dev/hdax or /dev/sdax, where x is not 1. So I can still access the dell partition, I have this in grub.conf: title Dell Diagnostics lock rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [email protected] mailing list

